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Abkhaz Translation - belongs to the Abkhaz-Abazi branch of the Abkhaz-Adyg language family and is widely spoken among Abkhazians in the regions of Abkhazia, Russia, Georgia and Turkey, as well as in other Middle Eastern countries. The total number of speakers of this language is approximately 120-130 thousand people.
Acehnese Translation - is an Austronesian language spoken by the Acehnese living in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is also spoken by Acehnese descendants in some parts of Malaysia, e.g. in Jan, Kedah. The total number of speakers is approximately 3 million.
Acholi Translation - a language of the Acholi people of the Gulu, Kitgum and Pader regions of northern Uganda. It is also widely spoken in the Opari region (South Sudan). The total number of speakers of the language is about 1.2 million.
Afar Translation - or Danakil language, belonging to the Cushitic group of Afrasian languages, is used by the Afar people in the countries of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. The total number of speakers of this language is 1.6 million.
Afrikaans Translation - one of the languages of the West Germanic group. The language of the Boers, descendants of Dutch and German settlers in South Africa. Until the early 20th century it was considered a dialect of Dutch. Now Afrikaans is one of the 11 official languages of the Republic of South Africa, also spoken in Namibia. In addition, small communities of Afrikaans speakers live in other Southern African countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Zambia.
Albanian Translation - the language of Albanians, used in Albania, Cosovo, Southern Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece
Alur Translation - is a West Nilotic language spoken in the southern West Nile region of Uganda and northeastern Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The total number of speakers of this language is 1.7 million.
Amharic Translation - the language of the Amhara people and the official language of Ethiopia. The number of Amharic speakers in Ethiopia is about 25 million. It is also spoken by some nationalities of neighbouring countries (in Eritrea, Somalia and eastern Sudan).
Arabic Translation - the language of the Arabs. It is divided into five different dialects, which from a linguistic point of view are basically different languages. It's the official language of 25 countries.
Armenian Translation - national language of the Republic of Armenia. In addition to Armenia a considerable number of Armenians live in Russia and the United States, Georgia, Iran, Syria and Lebanon.
Assamese Translation - a language of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-European family. It is the mother tongue of about 15 million people living mainly in the northeastern Indian state of Assam and neighbouring states. Written language based on an adapted Bengali alphabet.
Avar Translation - language of the Avar-Andi group of the Nakh-Dagestani language family, the national language of the Avars. The literary Avar language is based on the so-called Bolmatz (“language of the army”), an interdialectal language formed on the basis of the northern dialect. The total number of speakers is about 765 thousand people.
Awadhi Translation - also known as Kosali, Baiswari, or Purbi, is an Indo-Aryan language, which is considered a separate dialect of Hindi after the standardization of the language. Speakers of the language live mainly in the Awadh area of Uttar Pradesh, but also in the states of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, as well as in Delhi and parts of Nepal. The total number of speakers is approximately 38 million, of which 560,000 live in Nepal.
Aymara Translation - one of the two dominant language families in the Andes, along with Quechua. Aymara is spoken by 2.2 million people in Bolivia, 350,000 in Peru, and some in Chile and Argentina.
Azerbaijani Translation - official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Besides Azerbaijan, a significant number of native speakers of the Azerbaijani language live in Iran and Russia.
Balinese Translation - a language belonging to the Austronesian language family. The speakers of this language are Balinese, the inhabitants of the island of Bali in Indonesia and the surrounding islands. The total number of speakers is about 3.3 million people.
Baluchi Translation - a Baluchi language spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. The total number of speakers exceeds 7.5 million.
Bambara Translation - a language of the Bambara or Bamana people, spoken mainly in the centre of the western part of the Republic of Mali. It has the status of a national language and is the main language of inter-ethnic communication in Mali. The number of speakers of Bambara as a mother tongue is estimated at 4 million and as a second language at about 10 million.
Baoulé Translation - a language of the Akan people spoken in central and southern Côte d'Ivoire. The number of speakers is 1,550,000, which is about 17.1% of the total population of the country.
Bashkir Translation - belongs to the Turkic group of the Kypchak subgroup of languages distributed in the Volga region. It is the national language of the Bashkir people and the official language of the Republic of Bashkortostan. It is used in the Republic of Bashkortostan, as well as in the regions of Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Samara, and Saratov, as well as in Perm Krai, the Republics of Tatarstan and Udmurtia. The total number of carriers is about 1.4 million people.
Basque Translation - language Basque people living in the North-West of Spain and South-West of France. There are about 1 million Basque speakers
Batak Karo Translation - or Northern Batak language, spoken by the Karo people of Indonesia. Karo is an Austronesian language of the North Batak subgroup, and it is closely related to Pakpak and Alasic. It is used by about 600,000 people in North Sumatra.
Batak Simalungun Translation - is an Austronesian language spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia. It belongs to the Batak language group. The written language is based on the Latin alphabet. The total number of speakers is 1.2 million.
Batak Toba Translation - is the largest of the languages of the Batak people living in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. This language is used in everyday communication. It is heavily influenced by the Indonesian language. Toba belongs to the Sumatran branch of the Austronesian language family, with an estimated 3 million speakers.
Belarusian Translation - the national language of Belorussians, the main population group of Belarus. At the present moment it is scarcely used in Belarus itself due to the significant usage of Russian.
Bemba Translation - a language of the Bantu group, predominantly spoken in northern Zambia. It is the ethnic language of the Bemba people and is also widely used as a lingua franca, especially in urban areas. The total number of Bemba speakers is 3.6 million.
Bengali Translation - the national language of Bengalis. The official language of India and Bangladesh. The total number of speakers is about 250 million.
Betawi Translation - or Batawi is one of the Austronesian languages spoken in West Java. Betawi is also spoken in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The number of speakers of this language amounted to 5 million people
Bhojpuri Translation - an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of Uttar Pradesh. It is also spoken by minorities in Guyana, Suriname, and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius.
Bikol Translation - is the native language of the Bicol people living in the Bicol region of the Philippines. The total number of speakers is approximately 2.5 million.
Bosnian Translation - the language of the South Slavic group, which is considered an ethnolect of Serbo-Croatian.
Breton Translation - one of the Celtic languages belonging to the Indo-European language family, and is related to Welsh and Cornish. It is spoken in northwestern France in Lower Brittany, mainly in the department of Finistère and in the west of the departments of Côte d'Armor and Morbihan. The total number of native speakers is approximately 206,000.
Bulgarian Translation - the official language of Bulgaria. Also used in Greece, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia and Turkey.
Buryat Translation - belongs to the Central Mongolian subgroup of the North Mongolian group of Mongolian languages. It is the national language of the Buryats and is spoken in 3 regions of Russia: the Republic of Buryatia, the Ust-Ordyn Buryat District, and the Aginsky Buryat District, where it has the status of an official language. The number of speakers varies from 318,000 to 369,000.
Cantonese Translation - or Yue language is one of the languages of the Chinese language group. It is spoken in southeastern mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia; it is also spoken by many Chinese emigrants of Guangdong origin around the world. Officially Cantonese has no written form, but a written form of Cantonese dialect based on traditional Chinese characters with the addition of additional characters has developed in common usage. The total number of speakers is over 70 million.
Catalan Translation - the official language of the Spanish provinces of Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands.
Cebuano Translation - distributed in the Philippines on the island of Cebu.
Chamorro Translation - The language of the Chamorro people, indigenous to the Mariana Islands, particularly Guam. An isolate in the Austronesian family. The total number of speakers in different countries is 64,000
Chechen Translation - is the native language of Chechens, which is one of the official languages in the Chechen Republic and Dagestan. Chechens mainly live in southern Russia in the Chechen Republic, Ingushetia, Dagestan and a small part of North Ossetia. There are also significant communities in Turkey, Jordan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the European Union and the United States. The total number of speakers is approximately 1.5 million.
Chichewa Translation - one of the two official languages of Malawi, also commonly used in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Since 1968, the language has been referred to as Chewa in Malawi, while in other countries it is called Chichewa. The Chichewa language is part of the Bantu language family, which is spread across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Chinese Translation - a Simplified form of writing Chinese characters that has been used since 1956 in the People's Republic of China, as well as currently in Singapore and among Chinese living in Malaysia and some other countries.
Chinese Traditional Translation - a Traditional form of writing Chinese characters that is used among the Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau and some other countries.
Chuukese Translation - is a Micronesian language spoken in the Central Caroline Islands around Truk Island. The number of speakers is more than 50,000.
Chuvash Translation - the national language of the Chuvash people and the official language of the Chuvash Republic. According to the genealogical classification of the world's languages, it belongs to the Turkic group of the Altai language family and is the only living language of the Bulgar group. In Russia, Chuvash people live in the Chuvash Republic, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Samara and Saratov Oblasts. The total number of native speakers is about 700 thousand people.
Corsican Translation - a dialect of the Italian language. It is spoken on the island of Corsica (France) and northern Sardinia. The total number of speakers is about 100,000
Crimean Tatar Translation - belongs to the Turkic language family, which is part of the putative Altaic language family. The total number of speakers of this language is 541 thousand people.
Croatian Translation - the official language of Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina. It is spoken by about six million people.
Czech Translation - the official language of the Czech Republic. It is very close to Slovak. It is spoken by about 6.2 million people.
Danish Translation - the official language of Denmark, one of the Scandinavian languages. It is also spoken a little in northern Germany.
Dari Translation - the language of Afghan Tajiks, Hazaras and some other ethnic groups. It is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, along with Pashto. It is spoken mainly in the northern and central provinces, in Kabul, as well as in northern Pakistan and eastern Iran. Dari is the language of inter-ethnic communication in Afghanistan, and the total number of speakers exceeds 12 million.
Dhivehi Translation - Dhivehi language or Maldivian language. The official language of the Maldives, also spoken in the Indian Union Territory of Lakshadweep on the island of Minicoy. The language is spoken by about 371,000 people, of whom 356,000 in the Maldives and about 15,000 in India
Dinka Translation - the language of the Dinka people, one of the largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. The language is spoken by about 2-3 million people.
Dogri Translation - a language of the Dogra people in North India, belongs to the Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family. In the past, Dogri was considered a dialect of Punjabi, but today it is recognised as an independent language. Dogri is spoken by 2.1 million people. It is recognised as an official language in Jammu and Kashmir.
Dombe Translation - Ndombe or Dombe is a language of the Bantu family in Angola. The total number of speakers is 22,000
Dutch Translation - the official language of the Netherlands, and is also widely spoken in Belgium, Surinam, and the Netherlands Antilles.
Dyula Translation - a language of the Dioula people, a Mande grouping distributed in Burkina Faso as well as in Côte d'Ivoire, where it has official status. The language is widely used in trade in West Africa. The total number of speakers is 2.7 million.
Dzongkha Translation - is the official language of the Kingdom of Bhutan, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family and structurally closest to Tibetan. The total number of speakers is about 750,000.
Esperanto Translation - an artificial language created in the XIX century. The total number of owners of Esperanto is about 2 million people.
Estonian Translation - the state language of the Republic of Estonia. The number of speakers is approximately 1.1 million people.
Ewe Translation - language of the Niger-Congolese macrofamily, spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin. The number of speakers is about 5 million people.
Faroese Translation - is a Scandinavian language of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Faroe Islands and, as a minority language, in Denmark. The total number of speakers is 69 thousand.
Fijian Translation - a Fijian language spoken in the Fiji Islands. It belongs to the Oceanic languages of the Austronesian group and has similarities with Polynesian languages, but is not part of them. The native language of Fijian is spoken by 350,000 people, with another 200,000 knowing it as a second language.
Filipino Translation - the state language of the Philippines. It is spoken by approximately 87 million people.
Finnish Translation - the state language of the Finnish people. It is primarily spoken in Finland, and also in some parts of Sweden, Norway, and Russia.
Fon Translation - belongs to the Volto-Nigerian languages. It has about 1.4 million speakers, mostly in Benin and a few in Togo.
French Translation - he official language of the French people, and the French-speaking populations of Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada (Province of Quebec). It is spoken by approximately 270 million people.
Canadian French Translation - one of the two official languages of Canada, along with English. The total number of French-speaking Canadians is about 7.2 million (20.6% of the population).
Frisian Translation - a language or language group of the Frisian languages, which belongs to the West Germanic language group. It is spoken in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands, including the West Frisian islands of Terschelling and Schirmonnikog, and in north-west Germany, in Sutherland. The total number of speakers is about 350,000-750000.
Friulian Translation - is one of the Romance languages. It is spoken in northeastern Italy in the historical Friuli region - most of the present-day Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and the eastern parts of the Venice region. The total number of speakers is 300,000.
Fulani Translation - a language of the Nigger-Congo macrofamily of languages; one of the major languages of West Africa, spoken over vast territories from the Atlantic coast to the Nile. The total number of speakers is 10-15 million.
Ga Translation - belongs to the Kwa language family within the larger Niger-Congolese macrofamily. One of the 16 major languages of Ghana, it is used in the area around the capital Accra in the southeast of the country. The total number of speakers is about 745,000.
Galician Translation - the official language of the Spanish province of Galicia. It is grammatically very similar to Portuguese.
Georgian Translation - the official language of Georgia. The Georgian language is spoken by approximately 4 million people. It is widespread in Georgia and among the Georgian Diaspora in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the USA, Iran and Turkey.
German Translation - the official language of Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and one of the official languages of Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Belgium. It is spoken by about 110 million people around the world.
Greek Translation - the official language of Greece and the Republic of Cyprus. It is somewhat used in Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania.
Guarani Translation - Amerindian language spoken in several South American countries, mainly in Paraguay. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay and one of the 37 official languages of Bolivia. It also has official language status in the provinces of Misiones and Corrientes in Argentina. The total number of speakers is 4,800,000.
Gujarati Translation - the language of Gujarati who live in Western India. One of the 23 official languages of India. In the language spoken by approximately 46 million people.
Haitian Creole Translation - A language spoken by the population of Haiti. It is also spoken in several other regions of the Americas where Haitians live. The number of speakers was about 12 million in Haiti and about 2 million in other countries. Formed on the basis of the French language.
Hakha Chin Translation - a language spoken in South Asia (Myanmar, India, Bangladesh) by up to 300,000 people
Hausa Translation - the people of Nigeria make up a large part of the population in the North of the country. Distributed also in Cameroon, Niger, Chad.
Hawaiian Translation - one of the languages of the Austronesian language family; formerly the primary language of the Hawaiian Islands. The largest and most populous community of native Hawaiians lives on the island of Ni'ihau. Approximately 27,000 people use Hawaiian as their first language.
Hebrew Translation - the state language of Israel. For 18 centuries it was considered a dead language, brought back to life in the 20th century and adapted as a conversational language for the state of Israel.
Hiligaynon Translation - An Austronesian language spoken in the historical Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It belongs to the Visayan language group within the Philippine languages. The total number of speakers is 11 million.
Hindi Translation - the most widely used language in India, spoken in most of the northern and central regions of the country. It is spoken by around 480 million people.
Hmong Translation - the language of the Miao nation which has no state. Hmong native speakers live mainly in South China, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. A small community of 170 thousand Miao people live in the United States.
Hungarian Translation - the official language of Hungary. Besides Hungary it is used in the Carpathian Region of Ukraine, and also in Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Hunsrik Translation - German dialect that was spoken in Hunsrück and in Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil. It belongs to the West Middle German dialects, within which it bifurcates into Moselle-French Hunsrück and Rhenish-French Hunsrück. The number of speakers reaches 3 million.
Iban Translation - belongs to the Austronesian language group and is the language of the Iban people. It is spoken on the island of Kalimantan in the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah, as well as in the territory that is part of Indonesia. According to various estimates, it is spoken by about 700,000 people.
Icelandic Translation - the state language of Iceland. The majority of its speakers live in Iceland.
Igbo Translation - language of the Igbo people, who live in south-eastern Nigeria. The number of speakers is over 18 million. It belongs to the Benue-Congolese languages and is a set of dialects, some of which are rather separate languages.
Ilocano Translation - one of the Philippine languages, the language of the Iloco people. It is the main language of inter-ethnic communication for the peoples living in the northern part of Luzon and the third most spoken language in the Philippines. In total in the Philippines it is spoken as a native language by approx. 7.7 million people speak it as a mother tongue and 2.3 million as a second language.
Indonesian Translation - one of the Austronesian languages. It is the official language and language of interethnic communication in Indonesia. It also has the status of a working language in East Timor. According to various estimates, between 30 and 50 million people use it for everyday communication. The total number of speakers of the language to some extent is about 200 million.
Irish Translation - the national language of Ireland. At the current moment it is not widely spoken due to the overwhelming use of English.
Italian Translation - the official language of Italy, the Vatican, San Marino, and Switzerland. It is spoken by no less than 70 million people.
Jamaican Patois Translation - is a language developed on the basis of English, currently the main Creole language of the Jamaican people. The total number of speakers is over 4 million
Japanese Translation - the national language of the Japanese. It is the native language of 125 million people, with 140 million fluent speakers
Javanese Translation - spoken in Yogyakarta, Central and East Java, as well as on the north coast of West Java in Indonesia. The total number of speakers is 78 million people.
Jingpo Translation - or Kachin language, also a Tibetan-Burmese language, the native language of the Kachin people, the official language of the Kachin state and the language of the Kachin diaspora in India, Singapore, Japan and the United States. It has a total of about 900,000 speakers
Kalaallisut Translation - Greenlandic Eskimo language, which is one of the Eskimo-Aleut languages. It is the official and primary mother tongue of the approximately 57,000 inhabitants of Greenland, part of Denmark. Until July 1, 2009, Greenlandic was one of the two official languages of Greenland, along with Danish. As of July 1, 2009, Greenlandic became the only official language of the autonomous region.
Kannada Translation - the language of the people in southwestern India. It is spoken about 38 million.
Kanuri Translation - belongs to the western branch of the Saharan family of the Nilo-Saharan macrofamily. Kanuri is spoken by about 4 million people (in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small groups in southern Libya and Sudan).
Kapampangan Translation - one of the languages of the Philippines, also known as Pampango, Pampangueno, and Amanung Sisuan. The language belongs to the Northern Philippine languages of the Austronesian family and is spoken by about 2.4 million people.
Kazakh Translation - the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan. For about 11 million people, Kazakh is the native language. A total of 16 million people speak Kazakh. It is widespread in Kazakhstan, also Mongolia, China and Russia.
Khasi Translation - language of the Khasi people living in the north-east of India (mountainous Khasi and Jaintia districts, Meghalaya state) and in neighboring areas of Bangladesh. The total number of speakers is 965 thousand.
Khmer Translation - spoken by about 20 million people mostly in Cambodia, as well as in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
Kiga Translation - language of the Chiga or Bachiga, Bakiga, Kiga, one of the peoples of Uganda. Some Chiga also live in northern Rwanda. The number of speakers is about 2 million.
Kikongo Translation - a language of the Congolese people, which belongs to the Bantu language group of the Benue-Congolese language family. Its speakers live in the equatorial forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Angola. Approximately 7 million people speak Kikongo as their mother tongue. About two million more speak it as a second language.
Kinyarwanda Translation - is a language of the Rwanda people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congolese language family. It is spoken mainly in Rwanda, where it is an official language, as well as in southern Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The total number of speakers is over 7 million.
Kituba Translation - a Bantu language widely used as a “lingua franca” in Central Africa. It evolved from dialects of the Kongo language and is the official language of the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The total number of speakers is between 5 and 15 million.
Kokborok Translation - is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Indian state of Tripura, as well as in the state of Assam and adjacent areas of Bangladesh. There are currently about 700,000 speakers of this language, of whom 695,000 live in India and 5,000 in Bangladesh.
Komi Translation - language of the Komi people living in the north of Russia in the Komi Republic, Perm Krai, partly in the north-east of Kirov Oblast, Kola Peninsula, Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugs, Komi belongs to the Permian language group (Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family). The number of speakers is about 156 thousand people.
Konkani Translation - an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken on the west coast of India Konkan region. It has approximately 7.6 million speakers. Konkani is the official language of the state of Goa.
Korean Translation - the official language of South Korea and North Korea. It is also spoken to some degree in China, Japan, the United States, Russia, and the countries of Central Asia.
Krio Translation - English-based Creole language, the national language of Sierra Leone. It is widely used as a lingua franca. It is spoken to some extent by 97 per cent of the population. It is the mother tongue of about 300,000 Creoles.
Kurdish Translation - or Northern Kurdish is the most common Kurdish dialect. Kurmanji is spoken in all parts of Kurdistan (Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran). The total number of speakers is approximately 15 million.
Kurdish Sorani Translation - or Central Kurdish is the second largest Kurdish dialect by number of speakers. It is spoken in Iraq in the south-eastern part of Southern Kurdistan, as well as in the western part of Iran. The total number of speakers is 8 million.
Kyrgyz Translation - the language of the Kyrgyz people and the official language of Kyrgyzstan, belonging to the Kyrgyz-Kypchak group of Turkic languages. In Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz was the mother tongue of 3.8 million people. Also native speakers of Kyrgyz are ethnic Kyrgyz living in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, China, Russia, Afghanistan and some other countries.
Lao Translation - the official language of Laos, and it is also spoken in northeast Thailand
Latgalian Translation - the language spoken by the Latgalians, inhabitants of the eastern part of Latvia known as Latgale. Some linguists consider Latgalian a separate language, but at the official level in Latvia the written Latgalian language is recognized as a historical variety of the Latvian language. The total number of native speakers is 250,000.
Latin Translation - the official language of the Vatican and the order of Malta.
Latvian Translation - the state language of the Republic of Latvia. The number of speakers is approximately two million people.
Ligurian Translation - one of the Gallo-Italian languages spoken in the northwestern Italian region of Liguria. Outside of Italy, Ligurian is spoken by part of the population of the city of Nice and its environs (France). Less than one million people speak the language.
Limburgish Translation - is a West Germanic language that is part of the Germanic language group of the Indo-European language family. It is a collection of dialects that are spoken in the southeastern Netherlands, northeastern Belgium, and the contiguous territory in western Germany. It is estimated that about 1.6 million people speak Limburgish in the Netherlands and Belgium, and presumably several hundred thousand in Germany.
Lingala Translation - a language of the Bantu language group, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by more than 10 million people in total.
Lithuanian Translation - the state language of the Republic of Lithuania. Besides Lithuania, it is also used a little in Poland, Belarus, and the Kaliningrad Region of Russia.
Lombard Translation - one of the Gallo-Italian languages spoken in Northern Italy. It is spoken by Italians from the regions of Lombardy and Trentino in Italy and by Italo-Swiss in Southern Switzerland (cantons of Ticino and Graubünden). The total number of speakers is 3.5 million.
Luganda Translation - or Ganda is a language of the Bantu family, spoken mainly in Uganda in a region called Buganda. In addition to the Ganda people, it is spoken by about 100,000 other ethnic groups.
Luo Translation - The Luo language is spoken by a group of related Nilotic peoples living in Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of 2009, the total population of the Northern Luo was estimated at 900,000, the Southern Luo at 2,370,000, and the Southern Luo at 2,000,000.
Luxembourgish Translation - one of the languages of everyday communication of the population of Luxembourg. The total number of speakers is about 400,000.
Macedonian Translation - the state language of the Republic of Macedonia. In its structure it is fairly close to Bulgarian, enough that linguists regard it as a dialect of Bulgarian.
Madurese Translation - is an Austronesian language spoken by the Madura people living on the island of Madura, northeast Java, and elsewhere in Indonesia. The number of speakers of this language is estimated to be about 13.6 million.
Maithili Translation - Indo-Aryan language, a member of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Indian state of Bihar and Nepal. The total number of speakers ranges from 13.5 to 34 million.
Makassar Translation - Makasar language, one of the South Sulawesi languages within the Malayo-Polynesian language subfamily of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken in Indonesia in the province of South Sulawesi, with a total of 1.6 million speakers.
Malagasy Translation - an Austronesian language and the national language of Madagascar.
Malay Translation - the state language of Malaysia, Burma, and Singapore. It is spoken by about 20 million people.
Malay Jawi Translation - a dialect of the Malay language spoken in the provinces in southern Thailand, close to the border with Malaysia. It is the main means of communication for the ethnic Malays of Thailand. The total number of native speakers is 1 million.
Malayalam Translation - dravidian language spoken in southwestern India. The number of speakers is about over 35 million people.
Maltese Translation - the language of the Maltese, the official language of the Republic of Malta. In its structure it is fairly close to Arabic, though now it is considered its own language.
Mam Translation - one of the Maya languages. It is spoken in the Guatemalan departments of Quezaltenango, Huehuetenango and San Marcos.
Manx Translation - belongs to the Goidelic group of the Celtic branch of the Indo-European languages. Its closest relatives are Irish and Scottish (Gaelic) languages. The total number of speakers is 2200.
Maori Translation - the language of the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.
Marathi Translation - speaks about about 80 million people living mostly in India and Mauritius.
Marshallese Translation - indigenous language of the Marshall Islands, a group of coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator and west of the Date Line. The Marshallese languages form a sister taxon to the Ponpean-Truk languages. Together they form the West Micronesian languages within the Micronesian group of oceanic languages. The total number of speakers is 61,000.
Marwadi Translation - an Indo-Aryan language spoken in India as well as Pakistan. One of the major dialects of the Rajasthani language, it is spoken in western Rajasthan in the historical region of Marwar, neighboring dialects of other historical regions of Rajasthan such as Shekhawati, Mewari, Khadoti, Dhundhari, Bagri and others. The Devangari script is predominantly used to record the Marwari language.
Mauritian Creole Translation - a language based on French, spoken on the island of Mauritius as the main language. It is a member of the Mascarene Creole language family and has borrowings of some words from English, Portuguese and Hindi. It is spoken by about 800,000 people.A language based on French, spoken on the island of Mauritius as the main language. It is a member of the Mascarene Creole language family and has borrowings of some words from English, Portuguese and Hindi. It is spoken by about 800,000 people.
Meadow Mari Translation - also known as Meadow-Eastern Mari language, belongs to the Uralic family of the Permian branch of Finno-Ugric languages. It is one of the standardized literary norms of the Mari language, which is used by the Meadow-Eastern Mari people mainly in the European part of Russia. The Meadow Mari language, along with Highland Mari and Russian, is the state language in the Republic of Mari El of the Russian Federation. The total number of speakers is 365 thousand people.
Meiteilon Manipuri Translation - the language of Manipuri people, the official language of the state of Manipur in north-eastern India. The language is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Assam, Tripura, Nagaland and West Bengal, as well as in Bangladesh and Burma. The total number of speakers is over 1,500,000.
Minang Translation - a language of the Austronesian family spoken by the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, West Riau, and several Minangkabau communities in various cities in Indonesia. It is also spoken in some regions of Malaysia by migrants from the Minang region of Sumatra. The total number of speakers is 6.5 million.
Mizo Translation - a language spoken by the Mizo people of Mizoram state (India), Chin state (Myanmar), and eastern Bangladesh. The number of speakers is about 843,000.
Mongolian Translation - the state language of Mongolia and the regional language of inner Mongolia in China. The total number of native speakers of 5.7 million people.
Myanmar or Burmese Translation - language of the Bamar people, and the official language of Myanmar (former Burma).
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl Translation - dialect continuum of the Nahuatl language, spoken by one million people in the La Paz region of Mexico. It belongs to the Astecan language group. The total number of speakers is 1 million.
Ndau Translation - a people in Indonesia, living on the islands of Ndao and Nuse. There are isolated villages of this people on the island of Roti. There are vestiges of ancestor worship and animistic beliefs. The Ndau are descendants of the autochthonous population of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago. The number of speakers is approximately 2,000.
South Ndebele Translation - Bantu languages of the Nguni subgroup, spoken in South Africa, divided into Southern Ndebele (spoken in South Africa) and Northern Ndebele (spoken in Zimbabwe). Southern Ndebele has been heavily influenced by the Sotho-Tswana languages and is therefore sometimes classified as belonging to this group. The total number of speakers is about 2 million.
Nepalbhasa Newari Translation - One of the important languages of Nepal. The original language of Nevar is the indigenous language of Nepal. It is spoken in the Kathmandu Valley in central Nepal. The total number of its speakers is about 850,000.
Nepali Translation - the official language of Nepal where it spoken about 48% of the population. Besides Nepal used as Bhutan, India (in the States of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam), as well as Bhutan. The total number of speakers is about 35 million people.
NKo Translation - a writing system developed for the Mande languages of West Africa, as well as a literary language using this script. The script has many of the features of the Arabic alphabet, especially the direction of writing (right to left) and the combination of letters.
Norwegian Translation - the state language of Norway. It is spoken by approximately five million people.
Nuer Translation - belongs to the western branch of the Nilotic languages of the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan macrofamily. It is spoken by the Nuer people of South Sudan, one of the largest ethnic groups in the region (a small number of speakers also live in Ethiopia). The total number of speakers is 900 thousand people.
Occitan Translation - is the mother tongue of the inhabitants of Occitan, southern France, several adjacent areas of Spain and Italy, and part of Monaco. About two million people currently communicate in Occitan in everyday life.
Odia Oriya Translation - is an Indo-European language spoken by about 35 million people in the Indian state of Odisha. It is one of the 23 officially recognised languages of India and has its own script.
Oromo Translation - language of the Cushitic branch of the Afrasian language macrofamily. It is spoken in eastern North Africa, in the Somali Peninsula region, Ethiopia and northern Kenya. It is the mother tongue of approximately 25 million people of the Oromo people.
Ossetian Translation - Ossetian language, which belongs to the northeastern subgroup of the Iranian group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is widespread in southern Russia in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, as well as in South Ossetia and Georgia. The total number of speakers is about 623,000.
Pangasinan Translation - belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. The Pangasinan language is spoken by more than 2 million Pangasinans living in the province of Pangasinan, where it is the main daily and official language, as well as in other Pangasinan communities in the Philippines.
Papiamento Translation - Ibero-Roman Creole is the native language of the inhabitants of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. The total number of its speakers is about 329 thousand people.
Pashto Translation - language of the Pashtun people, one of the East Iranian languages. It is an official language of Afghanistan and some regions of Pakistan. It is spoken throughout southern and south-eastern Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan. The total number of speakers is between 40 and 60 million.
Persian Translation - a language used in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is spoken by approximately 65 million people.
Polish Translation - the official language of the Republic of Poland. It is the native language of 40 million people, of which 38 million live in Poland.
Brazilian Portuguese Translation - the official language of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Biscay, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor.
Portuguese Portugal Translation - a traditional variant of Portuguese used in Portugal, as well as in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Principe, and East Timor.
Punjabi Translation - a language of the Punjabis and Jats, belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the official languages of India. Panjabi is spoken in eastern Pakistan, as well as in northwestern and other parts of India in the state of Punjab, and in the neighbouring states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. There are approximately 28-29 million speakers in India.
Punjabi Shahmukhi Translation - a variant of the Punjabi language written in Pakistan based on the Arabic alphabet.
Quechua Translation - language of the South American Indian people Quechua, belongs to the Quechuan language group. It is spoken in Ecuador, southern Colombia and northern Peru. The total number of speakers is 14 million.
Qʼeqchiʼ Translation - a language of the Kekchi Indians, considered the fourth largest language of the Mayan family. This language is spoken mainly in Guatemala (400,000 people), but is also found in some regions of Belize and El Salvador.
Romani Translation - the language of the western branches of Romani. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. The total number of speakers exceeds 4 million.
Romanian Translation - the official language of Romania, it's the native and spoken language of 90% of the country.
Rundi Translation - a language of the Rundi people, one of the Bantu languages spoken by about 6 million people in Burundi and adjacent areas of Tanzania and Congo, as well as in Uganda. The total number of speakers is about 6 million.
Russian Translation - the language has official status in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. About 170 million people regard it as their native tongue.
North Sami Translation - one of the Sami languages, belonging to the Finno-Ugric languages of the Uralic family. Today, it has the most speakers among the Sami languages - about 21,000. It is spoken in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Its script is based on the Latin alphabet.
Samoan Translation - a language of the Samoan people, spoken in Samoa and American Samoa, where, along with English, it is an official language. It belongs to the Polynesian group of the Malayo-Polynesian supra branch of the Austronesian language family. The total number of speakers is 415 thousand.
Sango Translation - is the official language of the Central African Republic. It is not the language of a particular people, but a language of inter-ethnic communication, formed on the basis of various Adamawa-Ubangi languages. For 5 million people Sango is a second language, and for 400,000 people it is the main language.
Sanskrit Translation - an ancient language of India with a complex synthetic grammar. Sanskrit should be considered not as a language of any nation, but as a language of a certain culture, spread among the social elite. Sanskrit in the East in the following centuries became the language of intercultural communication of scholars and religious figures.
Santali Translation - one of the official languages of India, with speakers also found in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. The total number of speakers is about 6 million.
Scots Gaelic Translation - one of the representatives of the Goydel branch of the Celtic languages, the speakers of which - the Celtic Gaelic people - traditionally lived in the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebrides. The number of speakers in Scotland is 87,000 people.
Sepedi Translation - a language of the Bantu group, belonging to the Sotho-Tswana subgroup, spoken mainly in the Republic of South Africa. One of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The total number of speakers is 4.2 million.
Serbian Translation - the language of the Serb people used in Serbia and Montenegro, some eastern regions of Croatia, and also in the Bosnian region of the Republic of Serbia. It is spoken by about 11 million people.
Sesotho Translation - a language of the Bantu family spoken in South Africa. One of the official languages of South Africa and Lesotho. Total number of speakers is 5 million.
Seychellois Creole Translation - one of the Mauritian-Seychelles dialects of Mascarene Creole. It is one of the official languages of Seychelles (along with English and French) and the main language of communication among the population of this country. The total number of speakers is 72,000.
Shan Translation - The Shan language is a Southwest Thai language. It is spoken in the Andean highlands of northeastern Myanmar, in parts of northern Myanmar. It belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family. The writing of Shan language is based on the Burmese script. The total number of speakers is about 3 million.
Shona Translation - a Bantu language spoken in South Africa, mainly in Zimbabwe, but also in Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana. The total number of speakers is about 10 million.
Sicilian Translation - language spoken by Sicilians, inhabitants of the Italian island of Sicily and adjacent islands. It belongs to the Romance group of Italian languages. The total number of people who know this language reaches 7 million, but not all of them use it in everyday life.
Silesian Translation - a dialect of Silesian, belonging to the Lechite subgroup of the West Slavic languages of the Indo-European language family. In Poland, it is officially considered a dialect of Polish or a transitional dialect between Polish and Czech. Some researchers and native speakers distinguish the Silesian dialect as a separate language. According to 2011 data, 509,000 people in Poland named the Silesian dialect as their “mother tongue”.
Sindhi Translation - a language of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-European family. It is the mother tongue of about 20 million Sindhis living mainly in Pakistan. It is the official language of the Pakistani province of Sindh. A significant number of speakers also live in India, but Sindhi is not an official language of any state in India. Written language based on Devanagari (in India) and Arabic-Persian script. The total number of speakers is 20 million.
Sinhala Translation - the native language of the Sinhalese people. The largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million people.
Slovak Translation - the state language of Slovakia. It is spoken by approximately six million people.
Slovenian Translation - the majority of speakers reside in Slovenia. It is spoken by approximately two million people.
Somali Translation - the language of the people living in Somalia, as well as Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya.
Spanish Translation - the native language of 360 million people and is the official language of 20 countries.
Sundanese Translation - the Arabic dialect is widespread in the North of Sudan.
Susu Translation - language of the Susu people of Guinea and Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Mande group of the Niger-Congo macrofamily. The total number of speakers is 1,060,000, of whom 906,000 live in Guinea and 122,000 in Sierra Leone.
Swahili Translation - the state language of Tanzania, the Republic of Kenya and Uganda. It is the native language of 2.5-5 million people, with another 50-70 million using it as a second language.
Swati Translation - a language of the Bantu family spoken in Eswatini, South Africa, and partly in Mozambique. It is closely related to the Zulu, Xhosa and Ndebele languages and is official in South Africa and Eswatini.
Swedish Translation - the national language of the Swedish. Besides in Sweden, it is also used in Finland and Norway.
Tahitian Translation - one of the Polynesian languages. It is spoken on the island of Tahiti and other neighboring islands in the Society Island Group (French Polynesia). It is also used as a language of interethnic communication on the Tuamotu Islands. The Tahitian language belongs to the Polynesian group of languages of the Austronesian family of the Oceanic Zone. The total number of speakers of this language is 130 thousand people.
Tajik Translation - the language of Tajiks and the state language of Tajikistan. Except Tajikistan it is widespread in Kyrgyzstan,Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Russia. The total number of speakers is about 6 million people.
Tamazight Translation - belong to the Afroasiatic language family group and are widely spoken in the central and northern regions of Morocco. There are about 5 million speakers of Tamazight languages in the world. The total number of speakers is 5 million.
Tamazight Tifinagh Translation - writing form for Berber languages
Tamil Translation - one of the official languages of India and Sri Lanka. It is spoken by about 70 million people.
Tatar Translation - the national language of the Tatars, the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The total number of speakers is 5,200,000.
Telugu Translation - the lenguage is spoken in the Indian States of Andhra Pradesh and Telingana.
Tetum Translation - belongs to the Austronesian language group. Along with Portuguese, it is one of the two official languages of East Timor. Some dialects of Tetum have been significantly influenced by Portuguese. The influence is particularly noticeable in vocabulary and some aspects of grammar.
Thai Translation - the official language of Thailand. It is spoken by approximately 46 million people.
Tibetan Translation - is used in the Tibet Autonomous Region and some other parts of the PRC, as well as in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan. This language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman subfamily in the Sino-Tibetan language family. The total number of speakers is 6 million.
Tigrinya Translation - a Semitic language of the northern subgroup of the Ephiosemitic languages. It is the mother tongue of the Tigray people. It is the official language of Eritrea and the official language of the Ethiopian region of Tigray. The total number of speakers is estimated at 7 million.
Tiv Translation - belongs to the Bantu language family. It is one of the ten most widely spoken languages in Nigeria and is the official language of Benue State. It has more than 2.2 million speakers.
Tok Pisin Translation - a creole language spoken in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the official languages of the country, along with English and Hiri Motu. Tok Pisin is the most widely spoken language of Papua New Guinea and serves as a means of communication for speakers of more than 700 languages in the country. The total number of speakers is 3-4 million.
Tongan Translation - an Austronesian language and the official language of the Tonga Islands. There are currently about 187,000 Tonga speakers, but there are about 106,000 speakers in the Kingdom of Tonga itself.
Tsonga Translation - a language of the Benue-Congolese language family of the Bantoid branch of the Bantu group, spoken by the Tsonga people along the Indian Ocean coast: eastern South Africa, southern Mozambique, southeastern Zimbabwe, and Eswatini. The total number of speakers is 4 million.
Tswana Translation - a language of the Bantu group (Sotho-Tswana subgroup) spoken in southern Africa. Representatives of the Tswana people live not only in Botswana, but also in neighboring countries, and in South Africa they are even more numerous than in Botswana itself. The written language is based on the Latin alphabet. The total number of speakers is 4.4 million.
Tulu Translation - one of the Dravidian languages. It is spoken in the southwest of the Indian state of Karnataka. In addition, there are native speakers among emigrants in Bangalore, Maharashtra and the Gulf countries. The number of native speakers is 2 million.
Tumbuka Translation - a language of the Bantu family spoken by the Tumbuka people in some places in Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania. The number of speakers is about 2 million.
Turkish Translation - the state language of Turkey and the unrecognized republic of Northern Cyprus. It is the native language for 65 million people.
Turkmen Translation - a Turkmen language belonging to the Oghuz group of Turkic languages. Territorially concentrated in Turkmenistan, as well as in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia. The total number of speakers is 7 million.
Tuvan Translation - language of Tuvinians, belonging to the Sayan group of Turkic languages. Tuvinians live in Russia, primarily in the Republic of Tuva, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast, Tomsk Oblast, Khakassia and Buryatia. And also in Mongolia and the People's Republic of China. The total number of speakers is about 283 thousand people
Twi Translation - one of the dialects of the Akan language, sometimes regarded as a separate language. Widespread in Ghana among the Akapim, Ashanti, Achem, Denchira, Akamu and other Akan nationalities. It belongs to the Akan languages of the Kwa family. The number of speakers is about 1 million.
Udmurt Translation - belongs to the Permian subgroup of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family. Udmurt is the national language of Udmurts and Besermians. Speakers of the Udmurt language live in various regions of Russia, such as Udmurtia, where the language has an official status, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Mari El, Perm Krai, Kirov, Sverdlovsk and Tyumen Oblasts, as well as in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The total number of native speakers is about 324 thousand people.
Ukrainian Translation - the state language of Ukraine and the national language of the Ukrainians. The number of speakers is approximately 40 million people.
Urdu Translation - the second official language of Pakistan and one of the 22 official languages of India. The total number of native speakers is about 40-60 million people. Native speakers also live in the United States, England, Canada and Fiji.
Uyghur Translation - widespread in China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan; small groups of Uyghurs also exist in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, some European Union countries, the United States, Russia and Canada
Uzbek Translation - the state language of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In addition to Uzbekistan, it is also widespread in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Russia. The total number of speakers is about 24 million people.
Venda Translation - a language of the Venda people of the Bantu group. It is one of the official languages of South Africa and is widely spoken in the north-east of the country, mainly in the north of Limpopo Province and in the south of Zimbabwe (on the border with South Africa). The total number of speakers of the language is 1.2 million, of which 1.1 million are in South Africa.
Venetian Translation - belongs to the Romance language group. It is spoken in northeastern Italy, mainly in the Venice region, with speakers in Croatia, Slovenia, Brazil and Mexico. According to various estimates, the total number of speakers of this language is approximately 3.3 million.
Vietnamese Translation - the official language of the Republic of Vietnam. Also somewhat used in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and China.
Waray Translation - or Vinarayan is the language spoken in the Philippine provinces of Samar, Leyte, and Biliran. Vinarayan is the national language of the Warayans. The total number of speakers is 2.6 million.
Welsh Translation - the language of the Welsh, belongs to the British group of Celtic languages, used in Wales.
Wolof Translation - a language of the Wolof people, a member of the northern branch of the Atlantic languages within the Niger-Congolese macrofamily. It is one of the official languages of the Republic of Senegal, along with French. Wolof is also spoken in Gambia and neighboring countries of West Africa (mainly in the southern part of the Republic of Mauritania). The total number of Wolof speakers is more than 4.5 million people.
Xhosa Translation - one of the official languages of South Africa. It is spoken by about 7.9 million people
Yakut Translation - the national language of the Yakuts, which, along with Russian, is the official language of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and belongs to the Turkic family of languages, forming a separate branch. Most speakers of the Yakut language live in the Russian Federation, mainly in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The number of Yakut language speakers is estimated at about 430 thousand people.
Yiddish Translation - the Jewish language of the German group. At the present time it is spoken by under 500,000 people.
Yoruba Translation - language of people in West Africa
Yucatec Maya Translation - one of the Maya languages spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, northern Belize, and parts of Guatemala. Native speakers call it “Maya” - the definition “Yucatecan” was added to distinguish Yucatecan from other Mayan languages. The total number of speakers is 800,000.
Zapotec Translation - a group of related languages of the Otomang family, descended from the proto-Sapotec language spoken by members of the Zapotec civilization during the Monte Alban culture. Currently, many Zapotec languages use a Latin alphabet based on Spanish orthography. The total number of speakers is 440,000.
Zulu Translation - distributed mainly in South Africa.